Thursday, July 17, 2008

I have been spending some quality time with Aperture2 and I figured out that all these images I have been posting on my blog I have been doing incorrectly. I need to be exporting them as RGB JPEGs, but I have been using sRGB. Web browsers don't like this and I end up with washed out images. I have been wondering why my images I post to the web always look washed out. See the difference?

Last night I went with about half the JCMs to see Labyrinth at Red Rocks (part of the Film on the Rocks series). Immediately after, Shaun and I drove to Vail. We got there about 12:45am and hit the sack. This morning we rode with Mel and Jeff up Red Sandstone Road to a steep little single track that took us to Red & White Road. From there we climbed up above Sandstone and then dropped the Buffher Creek section of the North Trail into Vail. What a ride!

View of the Gore Range from Red & White Road:

Jeff riding some sick single track at about 10,000 feet above sea level:

Shaun feeling like a champion with a view of Vail Mountain behind him:

Lately Shaun and I have really been hitting the trails hard. Unfortunately my hard drive died and I lost most of the photos I have taken since the beginning of June, but here are some very recent ones from Tuesday. Shaun and I rode the Chimney Gulch trail from Golden to the top of Lookout Mountain. Grueling, but a great ride.

Saturday, July 05, 2008

This morning I got up and felt super lazy. Finally at about 11am Mel and I decided to go out for a ride in the mid-day sun. We chose a short one and did the Davo Hill in West Vail. Great ride, great views.

Shaun finally made it out to the Rockies to do some mountain biking and this time we hit up Vail Mountain. We rode up the Vail Village Road to Eagle's Nest. On the way down we started on Upper Fireweed then when we got to Mid Vail we hopped on the new, rather off camber, Fred's Lunch. From there we got a little Gitalong Road and the Liondown back to the village.

After lunch, a shower, and a short nap Melanie and I took the dogs over to the gondola to head up to Friday Afternoon Club at Eagle's Nest.

Friday, July 04, 2008

Yesterday Shaun and I went up to Evergreen to try out his new bike on some single track. We did the Bergen Peak trail. It was hard and Shaun was glad he had a full suspension bike. The 10 miles at 7800-9700 ft did us well. More photos here.

Last weekend I went for a mountain bike ride in Vail with Jeff and Melanie. We rode the Son of Middle Creek section of Vail's North Trail system. It is an easy uphill climb on Red Sandstone Road, but a rather technical downhill on the North Trail, so we took Koura and Tasha with us. More photos here.